Canvas: Poems

Zagajewski, Adam

ISBN 10: 0374523983 / ISBN 13: 9780374523985

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Canvas: Poems
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374523983
• ISBN 13: 9780374523985
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Canvas, Zagajewski's second book to appear in English, features all of this poet's distinctive traits. In these sixty-one poems, syntax explodes, masses of detail spill from profuse catalogs, lines break in ways apt but unexpected, and compressed lyrics alternate with extended riffs. European culture is the poet's native province throughout these explorations, and time is a recurrent metaphysical concern.

About the Authors

Adam Zagajewski (1945–2021) was born in Lvov. His books include Tremor; Canvas; Mysticism for Beginners; Without End; Solidarity, Solitude; Two Cities; Another Beauty; A Defense of Ardor; Eternal Enemies; Unseen Hand; and Asymmetry―all published by FSG. He lived in Chicago and Kraków.

C. K. Williams (1936–2015) published twenty-two books of poetry including, Flesh and Blood, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; Repair, which won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry; and The Singing, winner of the National Book Award. Williams was awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in 2005. He wrote a critical study, On Whitman; a memoir, Misgivings; and two books of essays, Poetry and Consciousness and In Time: Poets, Poems,and the Rest.